Photo by Ernest L. Hai 

 SCENE IN THE FORTRESS AT RHODES, SHOWING CANNON BALLS OF MEDIEVAL TIMES 



the part of the Turks to maintain them- 

 selves on the island. 



After a three days' visit at Vathy, I 

 sailed the Violet around the island through 

 the Strait of Mycale to the ancient town 

 of Tigani. From this point I secured 

 horses and 

 of the island to Yath\ 



returned through the center 



sending the cutter 

 back by the same way it came, to await 

 my arrival. 



The little town of Tigani is situated by 

 the harbor of ancient Samos, and the im- 

 mense moles once erected by Polycrates 

 have, for the most part, been recon- 

 structed. The walls, scattered fragments 

 of a theater, and the celebrated under- 

 ground aqueduct are the only remains of 

 the ancient town, and they date from the 

 time of the famous Tyrant. The walls 

 which pass over the lofty 

 the harbor in the distance 

 great wall of China. They 

 served, and there are no 

 towers still standing. 



Herodotus dwells at length upon the 

 harbor, the conduit under the mountain, 

 and the Temple of Hera. The aqueduct 

 is a marvel of engineering skill, consider- 

 ing the time and age in which it was 



ridge behind 

 resemble the 

 are well pre- 

 less than 30 



constructed. The end of the tunnel is 

 situated about half way up the hill above 

 the town, and with a guide and candles 

 I was able to penetrate some distance into 

 the channel. Such a visit is attended 

 with some risk, because the flickering 

 tapers are but an insufficient light in as- 

 sisting one to pick a precarious way 

 along the edge of a deep and narrow 



THE GREAT TEMPLE OE HERA 



The Temple of Hera was the finest 

 monument ever erected on the island of 

 Samos, and Herodotus says that it was 

 the largest known to him in all his travels. 

 All that remains of this great temple to- 

 day is one solitary column, with a num- 

 ber of drums missing at the top, and 

 heaps of ruins scattered about, partly 

 hidden by high weeds. The whole scene 

 is that of desolation, and one of the great- 

 est shrines the world ever saw has been 

 as irretrievably doomed to absolute de- 

 struction as have the sister temples at 

 Ephesus and Magnesia (see page 9). 



After a visit to the walls above the city, 

 I descended into the adjoining valley and 

 visited the springs which furnished the 



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